The issue of 9/11 attack and the Iraq war are both very big issues within the United States. So big, that someone by the name of Michael Moore made a movie/documentary about it. This movie is about how President Bush had ties with the 9/11 terrorists before their attack. Also, how after the 9/11 attack, President Bush failed to do anything for his country, rather using the 9/11 event to declare war on Iraq. Moore also implies that President Bush did this because of his other wealthy connections influencing him to do so, and how President Bush helped Bin Laden’s family to leave the states right after 9/11. A big part of the movie shows American soldiers having second thoughts about the Iraq war and the negative opinions of families with children in the army. A very strong part of the movie comes from the people Moore interviews. An example could be of a woman who he interviewed while her son was still in the war. She was a very patriotic mother and proud of her son serving their country. Afterwards Moore interviews her again after her son died, to find her very angry and upset. She reads the last letters her son sent to her and even travels over to the White House the curse the President.

The impact this movie caused seems to come from the fact that it is in a documentary format. Although not totally true, most people tend to think that a documentary is non-biased and only based on facts. A documentary is based more on facts than a normal movie, but that doesn’t mean it is like the news. In this case, Moore has made a documentary about a highly controversial issue, which can only lead to highly biased opinions. It is plainly shown that Moore wanted to make this into a Documentary because by using visuals, research, and interviews his point he is trying to prove seems more credible to the people. It is without a doubt that this documentary is more on the biased side. Moore shows quite bluntly President Bush’s incompetence before and after the 9/11 war which caused so many people to suffer. He portrays President as an ignorant killer with a corrupt administration.

As with all documentaries or movies, not all people agree with the overall theme or message being sent out. Because the movie seems so radical on its views a lot of people say that it is not skilled nor credible enough for any actions to be taken based on it. Also the man, who made the document, Michael Moore, is also a very controversial figure. Some people say he is a genius while others say he is a fraud. Some people find it hard to believe anything in the document because they think it may be fake material.

In my opinion, it’s very controversial. Movie is more like documentary, so may be boring to people not interested on the topic. Seems to be accusing President Bush as a very incompetent president that didn’t do anything right about the 9/11 issue. Of course anything regarding politics is controversial and biased, but it is weird to see something like that so openly expressed in a movie.

Thesis statements are one of the most hardest problem to solve for me whenever I write papers. For me, make thesis statements are very hard and takes long time to write them. English teachers I had in high school always talked about thesis statements and gave us explanation and told us how important it is for whole year, and I am still struggling. This reading reminds me how important they are, and why. After read this reading, I don't think I can write that good thesis statements, but maybe better ones.

I think this reading was helpful for our research paper. I also liked it because it was short. I didn't know what is an annotated bibliography before, and the reading helped me understand what I have to do. But still, I feel that annotated bibliography is very new to me so it is hard for me to totally understand about it. I think that the reading was too short so the information there was not enough for me. (It's irony that I said I liked the reading because it was short, and now telling that it was too short) I think the reading pointed out importnat things well, but what I mean by short is that I think it would be better if there were more examples provided.

I think that this reading was very helpful. I always have hard time to write long paragraphs. I try to write clearly to show what I want to say, but it doesn't turn out well. I knew that I have to fix it but never really knew what is wrong with my writing. This reading gives me the idea. I didn't know about paragraph breaks, and didn't know why this is important until I read this reading. also, now I am thinking that maybe I used too many unnecessary details
so that made readers bored. Honestly, I still think that writing long paragraph is very difficult for me, but at least I now have some idea how to write paragraphs better.

I think this reading was useful. It gave me useful information. I think the checklist is good idea to do it. It can help me since I forget things easily. I think this reading was clear. The reading defined formal and informal diction. I didn't know those terms so those are new for me. I like to write with informal diction more because it would be more interesting to me and audience. This reading helps me on my final paper, and I think this reading was good.

I already used highlighting and comments when I read book. My high school english teacher taught us to highlight important things while we read book. I didn't highlight when I was in high school, but I started to do it after I get in college.
I really agree that highlighting helps to read critically. I use highlighting especially when I read my bio book. Usually there's too much reading each week and it is hard to remember all that when I study for exam. So, I started to highlight the things that I think important and hard to understand and read all the highlight sentences one more time before exam. It helps me to save my time and study effectively.
I also write notes while I read because that helps me a lot.

It was incredibly long reading.
The reading first gives definition of identity.
The reading was repetitive and make me bored.
However, I thought the example were good.
Especiall, the beer comercial one was the good example.
I do like how the author describe and define identity in the entire paper, it was interesting to read about "The gist" part to me and "Who are you?" thing.
But, as I said, the reading was too long and repetitive. If it was shorter and not repetitive, would be better to read.

"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

I think this reading was useful
Revising, editing, and proofreading is very important. In my opinion,especially proofreading is very important. I proofread my paper and also I always ask others proofread my paper before I turn it in. I go to writing lab, or ask my friend to do it because I am not good at grammar or structure. I always have many mistakes when proofread it. proofreading really helps to write better paper, and after you proofread it you can edit or revise the paper to make it better.

I didn't like the reading because it was too long and hard to read. However since I didn't take english calss that provides these information, it was kind of useful. The examples were good, but since the reading was too long it was very boring.